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558 TIBERIUS AND CAIUS GRACCHUS, ETC. those fatal quarrels, the one, for his own preservation, the other, to revenge his brother's death, who was mur- dered without any law or justice ? From the account, therefore, which has been given, you yourself may perceive the difference ; which if it were to be pronounced of every one singly, I should affirm Tiberius to have excelled them all in virtue ; that young Agis had been guilty of the fewest misdeeds ; and that in action and boldness Caius came far short of Cleom- enes.